I'm just looking at this old timeline for a story I haven't touched in forever. I forgot it had a history that spanned 60 years in the past (most of it is actually minor and obsolete, but still forgot how vast it was).
Fool please, I once created an RP whose world history stretched back several thousand years all the way to the very beginning of the planet, and then even many more years beyond that to the time of the reigning God himself
And most of that history, especially the pre-world stuff, figured directly into the plot and current conflict and thus had to be fully fleshed out to boot...